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The Swing

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  • Audio CD (12 Feb 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B0000262EM
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 60,859 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Original Sin 5:18£0.69
Listen  2. Melting In The Sun 3:24£0.59
Listen  3. I Send A Message 3:22£0.69
Listen  4. Dancing On The Jetty 4:33£0.69
Listen  5. The Swing 3:51£0.59
Listen  6. Johnson's Aeroplane 3:53£0.69
Listen  7. Love Is (What I Say) 3:41£0.69
Listen  8. Face The Change 3:33£0.69
Listen  9. Burn For You 4:57£0.69
Listen10. All The Voices 6:09£0.59

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After the streamlined dance-rock of their US/UK debut SHABOOH SHOOBAH, INXS took an unexpected left turn into murkier waters with 1984's THE SWING. Although the album contains a couple of hints of the massively successful albums to follow--the jerky "I Send A Message" is basically a blueprint for smoother hits like "What You Need" and "Need You Tonight"--most of THE SWING is arty and sometimes impenetrable. The swirling, nearly psychedelic "Johnson's Aeroplane", as melodic as it is, ranks among the oddest tracks the Australian sextetever cut, and the atmospheric finale "All the Voices" comesclose behind. The mild quirkiness works more often than not, and at times, it suggests directions that might have been more fruitfully explored. The Bryan Ferryish "Burn For You" is a complete delight, and the Nile Rodgers-produced "The Original Sin" is a much more satisfying rock-funk fusion than Duran Duran's contemporary Rodgers collaboration, "The Reflex".

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The very beginning of inxs for in - sussess, 15 Mar 2002
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the human memory is so fantastic, yesterday i clean up my house, that's make me found the huge paper box. i open it with my curiousity, after a while my heart goes boom. that's the things from 80's. there are plenty of cassett tapes which i have bought since i was pre teenage. after couple hours go by, i found myself surrounded by the good old day. and one of my stuff that i'm very glad to
see it, that's INXS--the swing
it's just like long lost friends and finally you're find them.
if you turn back the clock into age of 80's, that's the golden age of syn-sound (which we used to call it NEW MUSIC ) and it seems like every band look at the success role model and follow. some are good some are so-so and some are cliche.
INXS is the exceptional. The Swing is the completely Excellent album which combine the hardest of Rock music and the softest of electronic. Original Sin, is the one good example.
The style of modern rock, the voice, the main theme of lyrics ... they have already told the world who they are.
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars I don't think this is their best album, 2 Mar 2006
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OK, let me start by saying that I like INXS. I loved Kick when it came out, and I explored their back catalogue then. Having read the band's biography recently I've been encouraged to revisit their music, and to my (partial) surprise I find that I rate Underneath The Colours & Shabooh Shoobah higher than The Swing. Why? The Swing is VERY eighties, and not in a good way - it's over produced, sounding like the construct it is rather than the organic creation of a band, consequently it sounds dated, and rather like Duran Duran or a lite version of Japan. 'To Look At You' (an album track off their previous recording) I find has more integrity and sounds like a band I'd like to listen to. Much of The Swing I find almost unlistenable, which is a shame. The one exception is Original Sin, the only track on the album produced by Nile Rodgers, and it has aged MUCH better than the rest of the music on offer here; this is a well produced track with a lovely final couple of minutes.
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